Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-08-04
DAKOTA ITEMS.

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is reported at Bathgate.
A l25 horse power engine will be put
into the Chamberlain mill.
Woonsocket is quite certain it will
get the Duluth, Watertown and Pacific.
Thomas N1ullivan's residence at
Plankinton was struck by lightning
and burned.
The Minnehaha Mail, of Sioux Falls,
has been sold by Irving Bath to j. NJ.
Wherry, of LennoX.
The Minneapolis and Northern ele-
vator at McCann was burned with
10000 bushels of wheat.
The Charles Mix Agricultural socie-
ty will hold it's third annual fair at
Castalia, September IA, Is and IL.
Riverside park has been leased to the
city of Pierre by the railroad company.
This is a valuable addition to the city.
Commissioner Mcclure estimates
from land office reports gain of $500
in population during June, or $1,000
during the year.
Report says the Cheyenne river is so
swollen by very heavy raihs that Black
Hills freighters have been delayed sew
eral days, being unable to cross.
Woonsocket's citizens have been Of
ticially notified of the definite location
of the Duluth, Watertown & Pacific
railway on a route through that city.
The Sioux Falls penitentiary con-
tains eighty-tive criminals and the Bis
marck prison fifty. Dakota's popula-
ton is 60O,OOO-one criminal to 1900 in
habitants.
An old man named Hill was brought
to Mitchell from Spencer, the new
town on the Omaha line, with both legs
broken. He fell forty feet in "A bucket
to the bottom of railroad we'll he was
digging.
The camp meeting services of the
north Dakota Methodists opened al
Grafton Wednesday morning. Presid
ing Elder Plannete and preachers Van
Vilet. Jephcott, Morrison and Cooper
will be present.
The committee appointed at the re
cent south Dakota division convention
to confer with the north. announc'
that they will be in Fargo Friday
August 5, and desire to consult witt
citizens generally in regard to division
questions.
The decision of Judge Spencer in de
nying the injunction restraining tn
removal of the county records from
Columbia to Aberdeen, does not decid
the validity of the law by which tn
election was submitted. 1t is thought
however, that Columbia will not pro
ceed further in the courts.
Mile. Viola. the four horse equestrian
in Barrett's circus, fell from her horse
during the performance at Wahpetol
Tuesdsv night, and sustained seriou
injuries. Rumor says she was up
braided for her carelessness by tn
, manager and that she took poison
She is reported dead.
The town council of Highmore ha
/ about closed contract with the En-
pire well auger compant, of Ithaca, \
J Y, to sink another artesian well. The
? are not satisfied with the flow of tn
old one. The machinery is to be read
5 for operation Sept. /. Consideratio
} $4,000 for l, $50 feet Of hole.
1t is announced that two new bras
field pieces are to be sent to the capt.;
of south Dakota to be used by the u;
kota militia; not, however, with an
hostile intentions against the stat
government at Huron, but simply fo
/, the boys at their annual encampme1
there to practice with.
, During q terrific thunder and raj
: storm Charles Hurst of Fort Pierr
: took his family into cyclone celia
, and went out to take last look at tn
| storm. While at the window he wa
: struck by lightning and killed. A hol
f as large as pea was found in HI
i head, and all his bones were melte
y and his body had turned perfectl
r black.
New officers of the Dakota Editori;
J association: President, Augustin
Davis; first vice-president, J. G. Adam
Webster; second vice-president, c. ]
Barrett, Aberdeen; secretary, Georg
Shlosser, Blunt; assistant secretar,
Samuel r. Glover, Sioux Falls; trea.
urer, II. NJ. Williamson, Flandru; g,
ecutive committee, Maj. Edwards, \
&. Nash, A. II. Lewis. l.. d. Lyon, Co
w. G.. Plummer, the secretary an
president, the latter being ex-otiici
l chairman.
, Father Stephen, of Stephen mission
/ Hyde county, left Friday for Chicag
and other points. even rs far east |,
Washington, in response to Il Telegram
During his absence the improvement
contemplated ut the Stephen missio
will proceed. The change of the Yanl
, ton school TO Hyde county necessitatt
she erection Of certain buildings. Til
balance Of the forty Indian boys fro,
Yankton will be removed to Stephe
mission by September lst.
: A flow of artesirn water LAS ju.
!. been struck on the farm of G. !
+ Chandler three miles southeast {
: Bridgewater, ut depth of 1875 fee
! after drilling through twenty feet {
stratified sand rock. 1t was a gre;
! surprise to find it ut this depth. wit
: such Il force us it has. 1t threw II
: tons of sand, with which was bar
wood, etc, and after clearing itse
forced mp water ont uf II threr-inc
pipe full iilty feet in the air